By
Elie Honig,
a former federal and state prosecutor and a contributor to CAFE
Quick: Which of President Donald Trump’s second-term executive orders currently threatens to do the most damage to our collective political order?
Birthright citizenship jumps to mind. But Trump’s effort to shred our 150-year-old conception of citizenship, freedom, and equality has been blocked by the federal courts from the start and has never gone into effect. Based on oral argument in the Supreme Court in April, Trump’s attempted redefinition is all but certain to fail.
